ACCREDITED IN EXCELLENCE
“Strong,” “visionary” and “progressive” are a few of the words used to describe Glynn County Schools in an Accreditation Engagement Review Report conducted in January 2019. A team from AdvancED, the parent company of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), performed a three-day monitoring review of Glynn County Schools, from which they provided a detailed report highlighting the district’s demonstration of continued compliance with the accreditation standards as well as ongoing progress and improvement. As part of the review, Glynn County Schools had to complete an onsite evaluation from the AdvancED team. This included administrators, teachers, students, parents, board members and several stakeholders. As a result of their analysis of artifacts, interviews, and classroom observations, the report indicated that the school system is moving forward in its practices and providing the best for its students. The accreditation report provided an Index of Education Quality (IEQ) as a holistic measure of overall performance. Comprised of the Standards Diagnostic ratings (used to determine accreditation status), the IEQ score for Glynn County Schools is 339.52, which indicates that the district is within the Impact level and is engaged in practices that are sustained over time and are becoming ingrained in the culture of the institution. This is the highest rating for IEQ. Glynn’s IEQ was previously 288 in 2014. The average AdvancED Improvement Network (AIN) five-year IEQ range is 283.33 – a calculation that the school system has surpassed in the report’s findings. On March 29, 2019, the AdvancED Global Commission approved Glynn County Schools’ accreditation status.
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